Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] power-domain: add power domain drivers for Rockchip platform

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Fri Oct 24 2014 - 12:44:42 EST


Hi Jinkun,

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:29:19AM -0700, jinkun.hong wrote:
> +static int rockchip_pd_power(struct rockchip_domain *pd, bool power_on)
> +{
> + int ret = 0;
> + struct rockchip_dev_entry *de;
> +
> + mutex_lock(&pd->dev_lock);
> + /* no clk, set power domain will fail */
> + if (list_empty(&pd->dev_list)) {
> + pr_err("%s: no devices in %s power domain\n", __func__,
> + pd->base.name);
> + goto out;
> + }
> +
> + list_for_each_entry(de, &pd->dev_list, node) {
> + pm_clk_resume(de->dev);
> + }
> +
> + ret = rockchip_pmu_set_power_domain(pd, power_on);
> +
> + list_for_each_entry(de, &pd->dev_list, node) {
> + pm_clk_suspend(de->dev);
> + }
> +out:
> + mutex_unlock(&pd->dev_lock);
> + return ret;
> +}

For my education, could you please tell me why we need to enable all
clocks of all devices in a power domain when we are talking to the PMU
and then turn them immediately off? Would not we want to enable clocks
in start()) callbacks, like Ulf mentioned?

Thanks.

--
Dmitry
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